Dear Professional friends, As Editorial committee of LISACON2021 have received many requests from prospective authors, the last date for submission of paper is extended to *October 31st, 2021* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LISACON2021 (Annual national Conference of LIS Academy) is being organized on a theme “Open Scholarship and Libraries”, to bring OA practices to the common platform under 5 sub-themes, namely: 1. Open Access Publishing 2. Open Education Resources 3. Open Science / Open Data 4. Open Source / Open Code 5. Open Access Ethical Issues LISACON-2021 offers many unique opportunities to young researchers to showcase their research work in the form of full-length articles and poster presentations. The uniqueness of LISACON2021 are as follows: 1. Double blindfold review after clearing plagiarism (Similarity guidelines are stated on the conference website) 2. Selected articles will be published with SCOPUS indexed journals (after fulfilling journal expectations) to provide greater visibility, Conference organizers are in touch with several publishers. 3. Cash prize for best paper award separately for contributory papers in general and student category. 4. The few best papers recommended by the Editorial Committee will be converted into invited papers with discounting registration fee and Local Hospitality. 5. Every Contributory paper presenter will be given 15 minutes time to present his/her paper and discuss with participants/peers. 6. Conference expert team will help every Contributory paper presenter with assistance to prepare the best PPT Presentation once the paper is accepted by the Editorial Team. 5. The paper contributors will have the opportunity to share the session with leading plenary and theme speakers. (Each session will have one plenary talk from other domain experts to give library perceptive, two Theme Talk by the leading Library professional. For more details visit conference website: https://www.lisacon2021.org/ Unique Opportunity to contribute your papers: LISACON2021 provides the best platform for all LIS Professions to update and upgrade their knowledge by presenting their research output and by discussing with the giant experts in the Conference. For more details: Download Brochure: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dNIkHk8PDzGEacnsGtcNmf7wZdlrDlRQ/view?usp=s... Download Conference Tentative Program Schedule: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UQJ9nubq9ig6YpWRU7krR6hGNGHC13rZ/view?usp=s... The editorial team of LISACON2021 eagerly looks forward to your original research papers. With warm regards -- Shivaram BS, PhD Jt. Head ICAST, CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories Govt. of India (Autonomous), HAL Airport Road Kodihalli, Bangalore-560017 Phone:- 080-25086083 Mobile (Official):9611839998 Mobile:9902177998 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.